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10 Killed, 29 Wounded In MLK Day Weekend Shootings

CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 39 people have been shot across Chicago over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, leaving 10 dead.

The latest killing happened at 11:36 a.m. Monday in the West Side
Austin neighborhood, where a vehicle pulled up to 24-year-old Allante
Elmore on a porch near his home in the 4800 block of West Hubbard, and
shot him repeatedly, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County
medical examiner’s office. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he
died.

About 1:10 a.m., 36-year-old Marlon Pollard was standing outside in
the 2200 block of West Chicago in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood
when someone in a black SUV opened fire, striking him in the abdomen,
face and left leg. The Evanston resident died in less than an hour at
Stroger, authorities said.

Early Sunday on the Near West Side, officers responded to a call of a
person down about 5:30 a.m. in the 2600 block of West Van Buren and
found a man in his 30s or 40s dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to
the head, according to authorities, who were still working to identify
him.

About 1:15 a.m., a 34-year-old man was gunned down in the Lawndale
neighborhood on the West Side.He got into an argument with someone who
shot him in the chest in the 4700 block of West Polk, police said. He
died at Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said. His name has not been
released.

Saturday night, a 26-year-old man was killed in an Austin drive-by
shooting. He was outside in the 5500 block of West Rice about 7 p.m.
when a vehicle
drove by and someone shot him multiple times. The man, who has not been
identified, was taken to Mount Sinai, where he was pronounced dead,
authorities said.

Two hours before that, an 18-year-old man was gunned down in another
Austin attack. A dark-colored car pulled up to 18-year-old Christopher
Johnson Jr. about 5 p.m. in the 400 block of South Central Avenue, and
someone inside shot him twice in the abdomen, authorities said. Johnson,
of the 7300 block of South Michigan, died at Mount Sinai at 1:35 p.m.
Monday.

Two men, ages 27 and 39, were standing in the street at 8:05 a.m.
Saturday in the 1100 block of South Francisco in Lawndale when someone
got out of a black car
and fired multiple shots, police said.

They were taken to Mount Sinai,
where the younger man died of wounds to the head and chest, authorities
said. His name has not been released. The older man was in good
condition with a back wound.

Another man was killed and a woman was wounded about 3:30 a.m.
Saturday in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, where at least five
people went into a house in the 6000 block of South Carpenter and shot
two people repeatedly. Tyrone Blake, 25, of the 6100 block of South
Indiana, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:48 a.m., authorities
said. The 26-year-old woman was taken in critical condition to Stroger
Hospital.

A 20-year-old man was slain shortly before 10 p.m. Friday in the
Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Devonta Spraggins was
driving east on 72nd Street when a white Ford Explorer pulled up to him
near Washtenaw Avenue and someone inside the vehicle shot him in the
chest, authorities said. Spraggins, who lived a block away in the 7200
block of South Talman, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn,
where he died at 10:22 p.m.

The weekend’s first fatal shooting happened about 4 p.m. Friday in
Austin, where a 21-year-old man got into an argument with someone who
opened fire in the 600 block of North Central Avenue. The man suffered
multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in
Oak Park, where he was pronounced dead at 4:18 p.m., according to
authorities, who have withheld his name.

Shortly after midnight Sunday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, a Chicago Police officer
chased and fatally shot 34-year-old Herbert Johnson, who was armed and
suspected of being involved in another shooting in the nearby 3300 bock
of West Monroe, authorities said. A 51-year-old woman was found with a
gunshot wound to the chest, a 30-year-old man was shot in the buttocks
and a 21-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the left leg. The
Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the officer’s use
of force.